One Hundred Years of Solitude

the mattresses out in the sun
because Meme had found a
bedbug the might before.
Since the children had been
present at the fumigation,
Úrsula figured that Fernanda
had put the ring in the only
place where they could not
reach it: the shelf. Fernanda,
on the other hand, looked for
it in vain along the paths of
her everyday itinerary
without knowing that the
search for lost things is